From 8bd49b5ce61cce3d069c9f2e3aec4bd568b33840 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:16:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Initial plan


From 396829d6e91daeab4f03552b01047995f6cdedc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:22:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Render Liquid in DescriptionGenerator before Markdown
 conversion

Co-authored-by: dmalan <788678+dmalan@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb b/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
index 58611d2..a75ae98 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
@@ -104,8 +104,19 @@ module DescriptionGenerator
     def describe(input, max_length = 160)
       return "" if input.nil? || input.to_s.strip.empty?
 
+      # Render Liquid tags first if $site is defined
+      markdown = input.to_s
+      if defined?($site) && $site
+        begin
+          markdown = $site.liquid_renderer.file("(cs50-describe)").parse(markdown).render!($site.site_payload, { :registers => { :site => $site } })
+        rescue => e
+          Jekyll.logger.warn "CS50 warning: failed to render Liquid in description: #{e.message}"
+          markdown = input.to_s
+        end
+      end
+
       # Convert Markdown to HTML
-      html = $site.find_converter_instance(::Jekyll::Converters::Markdown).convert(input.to_s)
+      html = $site.find_converter_instance(::Jekyll::Converters::Markdown).convert(markdown)
       
       # Parse HTML and extract text
       doc = Nokogiri::HTML5.fragment(html)

From 57b93631aa74ee25551a99aba43b51d7b70e8d4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:26:34 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Refine code structure in DescriptionGenerator

Co-authored-by: dmalan <788678+dmalan@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb b/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
index a75ae98..abddcfb 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
@@ -104,8 +104,9 @@ module DescriptionGenerator
     def describe(input, max_length = 160)
       return "" if input.nil? || input.to_s.strip.empty?
 
-      # Render Liquid tags first if $site is defined
       markdown = input.to_s
+      
+      # Render Liquid tags first if $site is defined
       if defined?($site) && $site
         begin
           markdown = $site.liquid_renderer.file("(cs50-describe)").parse(markdown).render!($site.site_payload, { :registers => { :site => $site } })

From 7d00434d3ea2a96400029cea0818c825d6bf8634 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:28:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Remove trailing whitespace

Co-authored-by: dmalan <788678+dmalan@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb b/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
index abddcfb..c9c1f9d 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll-theme-cs50.rb
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def describe(input, max_length = 160)
       return "" if input.nil? || input.to_s.strip.empty?
 
       markdown = input.to_s
-      
+
       # Render Liquid tags first if $site is defined
       if defined?($site) && $site
         begin